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People Are Worried About Singapore Airlines’ Entertainment System Cameras. Turns Out, American Airlines Has Cameras, Too
American Airlines told BuzzFeed News that the camera hardware “has never been activated.”

How Google, Microsoft And Big Tech Are Automating The Climate Crisis
Amazon, Google and Microsoft have all struck lucrative arrangements — collectively worth billions of dollars — to provide automation, cloud and AI services to some of the world’s biggest oil companies, and they are actively pursuing more.

Thank God Phones Are Getting Weird Again
New smartphones are increasingly bigger and slicker than their predecessors, but really, they all do the same stuff. This year is supposed to bring us something different. This year, phones are getting weird again.

How Silicon Valley Is Rebranding Eating Disorders
The obsession with fasting overlaps with a trend for what is often termed “biohacking” — the idea that your body is a system that can be quantified and optimized.